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EBS History of Culture Series - Part 1 THE COUNT OF MYEONGDONG
Episode 5
That motherless fool.
Fools like this one should be taken to Gwanghwamun and beaten to a pulp.
Who is the protagonist of your accusations, this time?
Ahh... take a look at this photo, with that slimy look on his face.
Who is it?
Ahhh... this fool, he's called Park In Soo.
He was seducing young maidens at this dance hall.
Not just one or two, but what was it, seventy two or three, the scoundrel!
He's got talent, all right!
Ahhh... what is this all about?!
Why are you getting angry for someone else's problems, Mr. Yoon?
Someone else's problems?! How can you put it like that?
It's because of those creepy scamps that our country is going to fall!
That's quite the exaggeration!
We are still on our feet after this war.
Is some fella having fun with a few youngsters going to ruin us?
There're college students, and even maidens from well-off families, it seems.
Ahhh... it says he seduced those maidens at the dance hall.
Why would well-off damsels need to frequent those dance halls?!
Exactly! The problem is that... "Dans Hall" or something!
Ahh... these days, even married women go there!
Mr. Yoon, you're already headed home?
How is he ever going to make any money, acting like that?
If it only earns you another penny to feed your family, just...
And what would that money do? The missus had an affair already.
Why did you mention it when you knew about him?!
Ahh... why bother trying to bring that kind of wench home?
So, you'd abandon her?
They used to say you shouldn't try to bring back...
cats and wenches, when they leave home.
What is that about?
Are you saying Yoon's missus had an affair?
Ahhh... she fell for the charms of the dance floor!
That... that!
So Yoon left earlier to go look for her, is that it?
Ehh... it's the end of the world. The end!
Ever since the old times, if women fell into disorder,
the country would fall.
What's wrong with you? You give me the chills.
Newsman Night
Ironically, "revolution" and "war" are often synonyms.
The history of mankind has gone through countless wars during its evolution.
Wars get rid of the established system and values, and make new ones.
It's in that sense that war and revolution become synonyms.
It is clear the Korean War was a tragic event,
but it changed our lives and consciousness just like a revolution would have.
That feudalism which continued until the first years of the 20th century,
and the Japanese colonial period.
The chaos of the divide, which started alongside our liberation.
That's right.
It was through the war's lenses that we experienced those days of change.
All the values and goals, the ethics and interpersonal relationships...
which shaped our history and society up to that period.
All those elements vanished like smoke, engulfed by the war.
What we needed, then, were new values and goals,
a new ethical consciousness and a different way to interact together.
Yet...
just like every other revolution,
it was through the eyes of disorder that all this started.
We'll see you later.
- Oh... take some nice shots. - Yes.
What are you reading?
Madame Freedom.
Seonsaengnim. This is quite fun?!
Keep that newspaper down while reading.
My eyesight wouldn't allow that.
What I'm saying is, let's cover those legs a little with the newspaper.
So you were staring at my legs all morning, Seonsaengnim?!
Think of our Korean women's old customs,
when they wore beoseon* even in the summer, afraid their ankles might show.
*Long Korean white socks
Wouldn't it be wise to avoid such excessive exposure?
Those weren't just our women's old customs.
It was their patience, and pain as well.
Anyhow!
So, you probably don't see Madame Freedom in a positive light, right?
Which side are you on, Seonsaengnim?
Is this a revolution, or just decadence to you?
A married woman having an affair, "revolution"?!
Oh oh! Don't you know the real revolution in the West...
started from under Lady Chatterley's skirt?
And how about Tolstoy's Anna Karenina?
Real freedom for the human mind is liberating oneself from the sexual divide.
Ehhh... Lee Seonsaengnim, you're getting old.
So, with a few trips to the dance hall, you become sexually liberated?
Men have been sexually liberated for an eternity,
while it's always been a taboo subject, when associated with women.
And you know why?
Even with an affair on the plate, men always come back home.
But what women who have an affair and cats have in common is, at the end... Uh?!
The reason why those women don't come back home...
is because their men wouldn't accept them back.
Ahh, that...
As long as this discrimination continues, which gives men...
carte blanche to commit adultery but chastises women for the same thing,
our Korean society will always remain a slave of its own feudalistic past.
Hye Rin.
You really think Europe is any different?
What happened to Lady Chatterley and Anna Karenina?
They both took their own lives.
It wasn't suicide, Lee Seonsaengnim.
It was murder.
It was murder, committed by those barbaric, feudalistic men.
Fine, I surrender. Let's give it a rest.
Seonsaengnim.
Do you really believe men and women are different?
Ahhh... I said let's just give it a rest. I'm busy.
I'll admit Jeon Hye Rin is smart, so enough of this.
Sounds like sarcasm to me?!
You're smart, Hye Rin.
I really mean it.
"You're smart, for a woman," that is.
You're turning my battery against me once again!
You know how miserable being a woman can feel like?
From the moment we're born, we're abused as "wenches."
If we even try to get an education, you scold us saying...
the smarter a woman becomes, the harsher her life will be.
If you get married and show your husband some charming affection,
you get scolded for only coveting sex, and not paying attention to chores.
If you devote your entire life to chores,
you go out and cheat on us because we feel like a stepmother to you.
Rebuff for this, abuse for that.
You know what will earn a woman some compliments?
Bearing a few children, and dying early, nothing else.
Of course, I agree that's a problem.
But...
I respect Jung Bi Seok Seonsaengnim.
Because he understands the real liberation for us women...
begins from stripping ourselves of sexual repression and discrimination.
Jayu Buin (Madame Freedom)
Madame Freedom is about the wife of a college professor who,
feeling the ennui and limitations of her life as a housewife,
goes to work at a western suit shop, and begins learning to dance...
from one of her husband's students. Her life starts derailing as a result,
while her husband starts feeling an odd attachment for a typist.
Filtered through the ethical consciousness of those days,
it was certainly a very unconventional subject.
But what created an even bigger controversy...
was legitimizing that woman's derailment as something worth debating,
and also her husband's profession.
The Seoul Shinmun along with writer Jung Bi Seok...
Hwang San Deok (SNU jurisprudence professor)
openly insulted a sacred profession like that of college professor...
through their "Madame Freedom." Hence, we demand its immediate termination.
Not reading a work in its entirety and demanding the termination of a novel...
Jung Bi Seok (novelist)
which is still being serialized, is the real insult.
Nothing but intemperate and devious accusations...
mired at the entire literary world.
I shall ignore such chimerical complaints.
Madame Freedom is not merely a construct of my imagination.
It is just a work trying to portray one of today's trends realistically.
Normally, serialized novels do show a propensity for worldly matters,
so that readers will be able to relate to them.
But Madame Freedom takes things to a whole different level.
To cut matters short,
it is not merely the depiction of reality which creates literature.
It is the literary consciousness within that reality which does.
The idea that only this kind of relationship between the sexes,
that this kind of stance...
is the only form of art in this country of ours...
devours the scope of our true literary world's legacy,
and cheapens, narrows the mainstream's outlook on it.
Therefore, it is our esteemed Mister Jung who fails to understand literature.
Blinded by the vulgar desire to gain notoriety...
into writing such lowbrow, childish work of mundane erotism,
which can only make him an enemy of our literature,
a wrecker of our values, and just as vile and dangerous...
as a half million Communist Chinese troops headed for our native soil!
It generated completely polarized reactions, along...
Kwon Young Min (SNU Korean literature professor)
with becoming the talk of the town in a quite impressive way,
eventually making the novel a bestseller, and even making its way to theaters*.
Han Hyung Mo's "Madame Freedom" (1956)
So, in that sense,
it was criticized by the establishment...
and caused them concern,
moving them to strongly oppose its views from an ethical standpoint.
They were afraid this one novel, on its own, could show the radical transformation...
sexual morality was going through in our country,
and become a symbol,
a literary metaphor validating those changes on a mainstream level.
Which was, so to speak, a sign of a certain fear people...
were showing once presented with such changes, subconsciously speaking.
It was just too hard to accept for them.
But this event culminated in an absurd consequence,
as Madame Freedom's writer was taken...
to what was the top intelligence organ in the country,
the Bureau of National Security, and investigated.
Cognomen.
I'm asking your name!
It's Jung Bi Seok.
Profession.
Novelist.
In 1936, your short novel "The Memorial Service"...
won first prize at the DongA Ilbo Literary Contest.
And again, in 1937, your short "The Guardian Deity"...
was honored top prize at the Chosun Ilbo Literary Contest,
after which you began your work as a novelist...
That's more or less it, right?
Right.
What was your purpose for writing this Madame Freedom?
Speak frankly with me.
The higher-ups are taking a staunch stance regarding your antisocial activities.
Antisocial activities?!
Tell me. If exposing the ruling elite's misdeeds and therefore...
damaging our national prestige is not antisocial, what is?!
Listen to me.
Why would a college professor and his wife having an affair...
possibly have to do with matters of national prestige?
The college professor is not the problem.
On the pretext of portraying college professors' moral deviousness,
you're drawing a parallel with our public servants' misconduct!
Just as public servants are showing great spirit of self-sacrifice and patriotism...
for our country and society by toiling for a pittance,
you're drawing them all as thieves.
How could this not be construed as antisocial?!
Ahhh... that was... just an episode of...
Sod what?!
"Episode." In a word...
Just for fun, as a diversion.
Listen to this man. He's lost his soul.
Is this really the time to depict public servants "just for fun"?
Know how much their morale has fallen because of your novel?!
That's unacceptable, what you're doing.
You should be writing works that encourage their spirit and morale.
How can you criticize public servants sacrificing themselves for a pittance?!
Isn't that right, Jung Seonsaeng?
Is it or is it not?!
I apologize.
If that is the result of my work, even if I didn't mean to cause it...
Write that, then.
That anything regarding public servants inside your novel is not reality,
but merely something "just for fun." Ah! Not for fun...
Something that, by mistake... Ahh... that's not it either.
How should we put it?
And what am I supposed to prove writing that?
You egghead.
You need to publish an apology in that newspaper.
Only then will the public servants' anger be placated.
Write it! Don't just make things difficult.
Welcome.
Oh... Seonsaengnim! Those are cigarettes.
And you have one already.
This won't do it.
Oh oh! Seonsaengnim! Seonsaengnim.
Don't do that. It's been so long since you've written anything.
The act of writing itself is childish by nature,
this is even worse.
What did you write about?
Ohh... will you give this a listen?
Yes.
"But a simple organism I am, amoeba."
"Unbeknownst to thine naked eye, a most piddling bacillus."
"I, spermatozoon."
"The most precise of all microscopes, my only perfunctory companion."
"Barely gladdened by thine ministration, I the microbe."
It's nice?!
In what way?
Well, it's quite good.
Ehh!
Seonsaengnim, don't throw it away. I like it.
Ahhh... Seonsaeng... Seonsaengnim!
I'll head home and think about it.
We need veteran writers like you to produce,
so that our dilapidated literary...
Stop blabbering. Tell me, what is the occasion?
Ahh... yes. You know, Jung Bi Seok?
Madame Freedom!
Have you read it?
Yes. And?
He was taken to the Bureau for questioning, it seems.
Ohh... and why?
Because, they say, Madame Freedom is antisocial.
Romance and mankind are like chicken and egg. Antisocial?!
Exactly what I was saying.
Ohh. So?!
Whatever the case, isn't this infringing on a writer's freedom of expression?
Of course it is.
So I was thinking of going to the Bureau to protest,
but, go figure, the writers' reactions are all over the place?!
Divided into what?
Some call it unreasonable, while some wonder what's the point...
of raising all this ruckus over a mainstream novel.
Not much of a division, I see.
Seen from a purist literature's standpoint...
Are mainstream novels sodden with manure?!
So you'd rather protest about this, Seonsaengnim?
What protest?!
The fact they're trying to question anyone if they don't like what they read.
Let them do as they please. Scribes and scholars should endure that,
if this world is to change in any way.
These days young scribes have no ambitious spirit.
Jung Gun scored a good one, this time.
But we need an elder writer like you...
to protest for the sake of freedom of expression.
What is Kim Su Young doing these days?
Still trapped at home doing nothing?
No, it seems he's scribbling something.
He should write.
He must have had it really bad during the war, with the guerrillas taking him and all.
He needs to use the pen to stab that pain away.
So why aren't you writing, Seonsaengnim?
Me?! My lifetime wish was Joseon's independence.
That wish is now fulfilled, what else could I write about?
Weren't we divided into north and south?
That's why I'm saying Kim Su Young should write.
He faced dishonor being taken up and down.
Seonsaengnim, about Madame Freedom...
Ehhh... forget about all that noise. Don't waste your time.
If we don't react in any way, we'll look weak.
Does banding together strengthen you?
A writer's best friend is loneliness.
- Uh? - But...
Ohh! Here you are.
Have a seat.
- You can go. - Yes.
- Have you been well? - Of course, of course.
Ohh... our little fairy! How have you been?
Ahh... Lee Hyung! Let me borrow your time.
Ahh... it's been a while, Lee Seonsaengnim.
I really liked that "A Streetcar Named Desire" you produced last time.
Lee Hyung, what do you think of Madame Freedom?
Madame Freedom? Why, all of a sudden?
At our theater troupe, we're debating adapting it for the stage.
I was wondering what you think.
Shinhyeop* wants to do Madame Freedom?
*Theater group founded in 1950, famous for Shakespeare and Broadway adaptations
Will it suit us?
Well, doesn't it clash with Shinhyeop's image?
I guess so, but things are so hard these days for theater groups.
Didn't your latest "The Origins of the Gayageum" do well?
Who said that?
The atmosphere wasn't great, with all those empty seats.
Classical opera and movies are getting all the attention these days.
So, we shouldn't?
Well...
Make up your mind, Lee Hyung. I'll follow your advice.
Hmmm... Well!
I'm asking around what people think of Madame Freedom, and opinions are split.
Some call it literature, others just a populist novel.
It's all over the place.
Take one side. Which one will it be?
Well, I can't really say much.
Ahh... this is trouble. I barely got a spot at the Arts Theater.
Lee Hyung, let's have a beer together some time. Uh?
Ahh... yes.
Madame Freedom?!
"As vile and dangerous to our motherland as a half million enemy troops."
That is how Professor Hwang San Deok labeled Madame Freedom.
It's certainly a colorful expression, coarse and even a little laughable.
But the influence this novel had on our society at the time...
even surpassed those half million enemy troops.
Ahhh... it's all about Madame Freedom anywhere you go.
What do you think?
I'm envious, what else?
You see it as literature?
That will be up to our descendants to decide.
It's true it's a tad populist, isn't it?
And so is "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
It was prohibited in the United Kingdom for a long time,
as it depicted sex in a demotic way. But hasn't that become one of...
contemporary literature's most acclaimed masterpieces?
Who would ever call D.H. Lawrence a populist writer?
Madame Freedom is an insult to the purity of literature!
It's revolting to see such vulgar erotic tripe being considered a novel.
What is this "literature," really?
It's certainly not about scholars in Joseon or Buddhist monks practicing...
living a life of isolation in the mountains,
repeating sutras among clean water and skies?
Literature should give one's contemporaries a sense of joy and hope.
These days, I'm completely immersed in Sowol*'s poems.
*Poet Kim Jeong Shik's pen name
Poems and novels should be easy to read,
so that anyone can appreciate them.
"When in disgust you leave me."
*Kim Sowol's "Azaleas"
"I shall tacitly allow you to go."
"The Azaleas of Mount Yak, in Yeongbyeon,"
"Shall sparkle your parting path with their beauty."
How easy is this?!
"Unforgotten, memories shall embrace you."
*Kim Sowol's "Unforgotten"
"Time will pass as world commands."
"If lived you have, away will time such embrace take."
I don't really know why I used to despise Sowol's poems.
It's like every single word makes the right sound in your mind.
Oh! Look at me. Give me a moment.
Where are you going, Park Hyung?
I'm late!
I'm the one who's late, today.
Aren't you always?
Am I?!
Actually, today I discovered something truly important.
You like Kim Sowol's poems, Miss Shin?
You don't like them?
All I've eyes for are your poems, Seonsaengnim.
They're all fake.
Why?
Why would you tell me something so scary?
What I'm saying...
Writing my poems, I tried to use difficult words on purpose,
to embellish my prose.
That is why I couldn't honestly convey my feelings.
Like your feelings for me?
Seonsaengnim.
You don't like me, do you?
Ahhh... what are you saying?
It's because there's something nice between us that we meet.
I know you're a devoted husband, Seonsaengnim.
Still, I'm fine with it.
I'm happy just meeting you like this, Seonsaengnim.
Seonsaengnim.
What is this?
I bought a shirt for you, Seonsaengnim.
I have a lot of clothes already.
You're a stylish man, aren't you?
So, I had a hard time choosing the right one.
Which color could suit you. Red?! Or maybe blue?
I am certainly thankful for this.
Next time we meet, you must wear this.
If you don't like it, I'll replace it.
Park In Hwan was a devoted husband.
Contrary to popular belief, this was Park In Hwan's relationship with women.
Park In Hwan was the epitome of style.
Wearing a suit like nobody else's business, he looked like a fashion model.
He wore different clothes according to the seasons.
He donned a milkwhite raincoat during spring and summer.
In winter, just like the trend in Russia at the time,
he wore a dark grey overcoat with a very large collar.
To make matters worse, he even changed his drinking habits according to seasons.
Gin fizz in spring, eyeball in autumn,
Johnnie Walker in winter, and so on.
He never forgot to wear a full suit, even in the scorching summer.
"I can't wait for winter. Summer is a populist lie."
"It's winter you need, to don a thick Burberry*...
*Ever since the 50s, Koreans called any thick jacket regardless of brand, "Burberry"
and let your muffler and hat shine as they should."
Yes.
To Park In Hwan, those weren't merely seasons for season's sake.
It was all about fashion.
He was a noble at least mentally, and a "Dandy Boy."
Honey! I'm back.
You're home earlier, today?!
I didn't even drink.
Right? Not even a glass.
Lee Jeong Suk (Park In Hwan's wife)
But, what is this smell?
Try again.
I said I didn't drink.
You ate western, didn't you?
Hamburg Steak?
Wow! Her nose is more sensitive than a dog's.
Who did you have dinner with?
With this American ambassador I know.
Doesn't like dwenjang*. (*soybean paste)
I could smell perfume from your clothes. Was your friend a woman?
Wow! Clairvoyance as well!
I can't lie to you, can I?
We'll go back to Kim Su Young's story from here.
Are you going out?
Yes.
Do you have any money?
I don't really need any.
Wait a moment.
I'll be going.
Give a hug to your son at least once, will you?
Did he do anything wrong?
Tell Daddy, "Have a good day."
Why are you giving me so much?
Yesterday was my pay day. I gave our mother half,
and left the other half at the office, before I brought it to you.
I don't really need all this money.
Don't always ask her for money like a middle schooler.
Just use this whenever you need it.
And you?
I kept enough for me already.
Thanks.
I wrote your wife a letter.
You don't want to hear it?
Are you giving up on her for good?
Should I stop writing to her?
I'll get going.
I can't now.
I can't follow you now.
I'm sorry.
I can't follow you now. I am sorry.
I'm sorry.
- I think it would suit you really well. - Ahh... really?
Noh Bong Shik
- This is even cheaper. Try it once. - It looks pretty nice.
How much is this? Look, Miss.
Ohh... I'm sorry. Do you like this?
Ahh... I do like it. But...
Go ahead first, I'll see you tomorrow.
We're going.
Seonsaengnim.
I'll dirty it.
I'll wash it later.
Have you been there all day?
You didn't have anything to eat?
These days, I skip meals pretty often.
Why?
Monks say you should fast when you don't work all day.
I'm sorry, Miss Noh. I'm always bothering you.
You know, not long after you were released,
I left the POW camp and came here to Seoul.
- And... - I know.
About you getting married.
How did you find out?
You must have been avoiding me because of that.
Just use it.
I'll wash it at home, Miss Noh.
Don't "Miss" me. I don't want to meet like this.
I...
Seonsaengnim!
I do, too.
I like you too, Seonsaengnim.
Lee Mi Ja's "Spring Days Are Gone"
Hey!!
You... damn...
Let me go! Let me go! You bastard!
I said let me go! Let me go!
- Take him out! - Let me go!
Hey, you bastards! I ought to...
You bastards.
If there's anyone who can show composure even in the middle of chaos, that's women.
Should we call it maternal instinct?
Just like the instinct of Korean mothers,
who strive to protect their children no matter what.
Even the war couldn't make that instinct fade away.
Whenever there's a war, men take their weapons...
and go risk their lives on the battlefield, to protect their countries.
But, it was the women left behind who protected our families.
Many women entered that battlefield called survival, as the war continued.
The same women who, before the war, saw the family's harmony as a virtue,
did everything they could to protect their families during the war.
They did it as if it was the last thing they'd do while still alive.
This is what Kim Su Young wrote.
"Even in our house, drenched in its time-honored patina."
"Its billows and breeze made their presence felt."
"Fresh and energetic, they engulfed us all."
"So many voices and faces, facing the rising sun in the morning."
"Bidding farewell to the day, filling that place like thick dust in the desert."
"How long must the day have been."
"Like a wave guiding our path, a beautifully shining color."
"All together pointing at layers of our generation."
It's one of Kim Su Young's poems, entitled "My Family."
And this is how he ends it.
"Drowning the coarse slopes of our household,"
"Of endless benevolence and ambiguity, my breeze and billows."
"Is this love?"
"That which basks in old age, is this but man's privilege?"
What is that which we truly craved for,
in this land which endured the pains of war?
Fear of the conflict, the starving, our reversed morality,
mistrust for our neighbors, a rootless sense of anger.
What we needed was a new goal in life, which would leave behind...
all those demons of the past.
But we wouldn't need to look far to find it.
It wasn't somewhere in the faraway universe,
or only what the gods' providence would allow entrance into.
It was looking for what we lost during the war,
the vestiges of our past.
Just like in Kim Su Young's poem, the kind of love which can still be beautiful with age.
No, even better, the love which improves with age.
Finding our past roots was such a goal.
What are you doing?
Hurry up and tell him.
You don't need to be scared about Lee Sajangnim.
If you tell him everything, he'll help you out.
Please, tell me.
A grown up man like you is crying?!
Because of this fella, the owner of the Newsman was...
tearing the house down with his tongue, complaining we're sending him bust.
What can you do about that?! His wife was taken by this...
How am I going to find you someone who doesn't exist?
I saw it with my two eyes!
My wife was embracing some young fool!
Why are you here complaining, when you can't keep a check on the missus?!
Give it a rest.
Do you have a photo of your wife?
- Yes?! - Ohh... Yes.
Come on, show it to him.
It's here.
Have a look.
Isn't she comely?
That's why all those youngsters are hanging around her.
Find her.
Ahhh... really, Aunim.
Do I need to find someone else's wife, now?
What are neighbors good for, then? We need to find her.
- Don't worry about a thing. - Yes.
I'm so grateful.
Sajangnim!
Many thanks. We won't forget this!
Let's go.
Ehhh... you pathetic...
Hey!
Here. Show this around, and visit all the dance halls in town.
Yes!
Sold anything?
- What happened? - It all went well.
- He said he'll find her? - Ahhh... of course.
It's Lee Sajangnim, after all.
He's not one of those scoundrels like Lee Jung Jae.
- He's a good man. - That's good to hear.
Right!
Mr. Yoon, keep an eye on your wife, from now on.
It's all because of you!
It's because of all your rumors...
that my wife felt too embarrassed to come home, you fool!
Ehhh... that's an excuse.
She must have had some complaints with you under the covers,
otherwise why would she have an affair?
What?! This fool!
What's wrong with you?
Right, you fool! Write it in the newspaper!
That I couldn't make her happy at night, so she left me!
The higher-ups are worrying as well.
Dance halls are popping up everywhere these days.
But you know, it's all because of that Madame Freedom or something, the novel.
It'll pass, eventually.
The Newsman nightclub thing, are you controlling that?
Ahhh... no way.
Ohh, I knew it. You would never be the type.
What money could I possibly have?
Listen, how does this sound? Will you come with me to Seodaemun?
Seodaemun?
Ahhh... Lee Gi Bong wants to meet you.
Ahh. Later.
Again, later?
I said not to make any more dance halls in Myeongdong,
as things would get even more chaotic.
You need that kind of place to make some decent money.
I can just ask my sister for that.
So, your sister is rich, I hear?
I must thank you for helping out my boys at the Arts Theater.
Let's go to Seodaemun together sometime soon, uh?
He's a really decent man, if you get to know him.
Yes. I'll see. Here.
Dear. You can't have an affair.
Don't waste time with that nonsense.
I even went to the state council today.
Would they find them? It's not like there're only a couple of orphanages.
Who cares if there's a thousand? I'l find them at all costs.
If I think of those poor little things suffering so much,
my tears become drenched in blood.
Again with the crying.
It's my fault.
No matter how urgently I needed to escape,
I should have taken them with me.
Why would that be your fault?
With the bridge over the Han River ending that way...
Think about it. How hard was it passing the 38th Parallel?
Back then, we took both along and went through all that.
But how could we think of ourselves alone, and run away?
Stop crying.
I said stop!
Why do you keep acting like this? They're alive!
Why would they die? We're all here alive and well!
Let's go. We need to have a meal and some good sleep,
if we are to get up in the morning.
Dear. You can't let the dance seduce you.
You'll see if I hear any rumor about you!
Who is ever going to do that?!
It's just because I love you, Dear.
I can't live without you.
Be careful, you almost hit me!
The ramifications of Madame Freedom's influence aren't over yet.
We'll continue our story in the next episode.
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Don't forget what the judge ruled!
"The law only protects the kind of chastity worth protecting."?!
Know what Madame Freedom means to us women?
It's really great, Lee Sajangnim. We hit the jackpot this time.
I don't work for anyone.
He must be dating, Oppa.
He's dating?! Kim Su Young?
Su Young is just putting on airs.
We're quite stingy, aren't we?
Scribes should be different.
Isn't this Daehanminguk Kim Gwang Shik Seonsaengnim?
Seo Jeong Ju, Kim Dong Ri, Park Mok Wol! It's all rubbish!
I'd like to have a letter of recommendation from you, Seonsaengnim.
There's a library in Jongro. I run it, come there sometime.
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